← Back to search
No image

Drawn from the blazon

croissant

Fully parsed

Cotton

family·GB·strict·Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials)

De gueules au chevron d'argent accompagné de trois croissants d'argent.

Original entry: chevron betw 3 crescents · G AA · Yorkshire · 1400

Blazon written automatically by Enquerre from the coded entry of Steen Clemmensen’s public database, Ordinary of Medieval Armorials (v2.1, 2020), used with the author’s permission. armorial.dk

Other names

Identified as
John Cotton

In medieval armorials

  • Jenyns' Ordinary (William) (1380) no. 751 “mons john de cotom”
  • Jenyns' Book (Thomas) (1410) no. 700 “monsr richard denton port de goules chevron d'argent a trois cressantz d'argent”

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (ordinary)
gueules (field)

Charges

chevron (ordinary)
3× croissant (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "gueules",
      "category": "colour"
    }
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "chevron",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "argent",
        "category": "metal"
      },
      "modifiers": [
        {
          "verb": "accompagné",
          "count": 3,
          "tincture": {
            "name": "argent",
            "category": "metal"
          },
          "charge_name": "croissant"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Similar arms

A searchable armorial — coat-of-arms identification

Sources: Rietstap · Siebmacher · Burke · Wikipedia (fr/nl) · Crollalanza · Rolland · Fox-Davies · Potier de Courcy · Révérend · Ostrowski · Mango · Braamcamp Freire · D’Hozier · Mailhol · medieval armorials (Clemmensen, Bunel) · regional armorials and 1696 registers

Credits and licences · Privacy